Contributed by Dennis Davidson on Jan 23, 2012
ECKERD: ON THE HOOK WITH GOD
JACK ECKERD founded the chain of drug stores that bear his name. Eckerd gave his employees Eckerd's shares from his personal stock. By taking advantage of the stock option program offered by Eckerd, his employees benefitted financially in the success of the new
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 23, 2004
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On June 25, 1979, thirty-five year old Willard Boone from the Sandy Hook community, south of Columbia, MS, drowned in the Pearl River. During that week four others drowned along the path of the Pearl. A reporter for the then "Jackson Daily News" quoted a law offi-
cial as saying, "This is one of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
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HOOKING UP, HANGING OUT
Scholars from the Institute for American Values conducted a
survey, "Hooking Up, Hanging Out, and Looking for Mr. Right,"
that asked 1,000 college women about courtship in the new
millennium. The survey found that courtship—dating a male with
the hopes of
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Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 18, 2007
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We Forgot to Bait the Hooks
I have a friend who took his little six-year-old boy fishing with him one day. They put out the line and then went up to the cabin. After an hour, they went back down to the river to see if they had caught anything.
Sure enough, there were several fish on the
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Baptist
Contributed by Aaron Burgess on Dec 11, 2002
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A woman by the name of Sandy Willey related a Christmas story that occurred during World War II. A woman named Anne took her two little children to Texas to be with her parents because her husband was stationed in Europe. And they prepared for Christmas and got the tree up and all the gifts
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Jeff Simms on May 21, 2003
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In a letter from Mils and Sandy Becker, April, 1995.
“In the 1920’s Stalin ordered a purge of all Bibles and believers. In Stavropol, this order was carried out completely. Thousands of Bibles were taken and believers were sent to the gulags, where so many died for being enemies of the
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Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Dec 2, 2007
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Rev Sandy Millar, the former Rector of Holy Trinity, Brompton, London, tells of how he visited a young woman in Holloway Prison. There was only one card pinned up in her cell. He noticed the words: ‘Happy Birthday’ was the printed message and underneath was written, ‘We wish things could have
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Baptist
Contributed by C. Philip Green on May 15, 2010
Sandy and I enjoy watching Kitchen Nightmares every once in a while on TV. It’s a show in which Gordon Ramsey, a top chef in the culinary world, comes to the aid of a failing restaurant and tries to turn them around. He ends up doing a complete makeover of the entire restaurant from its interior
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Evangelical Free
Contributed by Brian La Croix on Oct 29, 2007
In the movie, “Hook,” Robin Williams plays Peter Pan, who had left Neverland and had grown up to be a corporate attorney.
He is completely focused on his job, and ends up neglecting his son over and over.
There is a line that he quotes from time to time in the beginning of the movie that sets the
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Wesleyan
Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Aug 17, 2001
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[Welcome and Do-Si-Do, Citation: Cartoonist Sandy Silverthorne in Leadership, Vol. 11, no. 4].
"And now here’s the point in our service where I’d like you all to rise, turn to the person on your right, shake hands, turn
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Rick Stacy on Apr 3, 2002
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When our two oldest girls, Shannon and Sandi, were in High School I was pretty certain that neither would live past their eighteenth birthday. If they didn’t kill each other there was a very good possibility I would.
When they were little they were cute but in their teens they were always
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by David Parks on Jan 30, 2003
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Study: A Few Cigarettes Can Hook You For Life
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON –
Scientists have confirmed a suspicion held by some smokers but never proven: It could take just a few cigarettes to become addicted. Some 12 and 13 year-olds showed evidence of addiction within days of their first
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Christian/Church Of Christ
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A pirate had a wooden leg, a hook on one arm, and a patch over one eye.
Someone asked him how these things happened.
He said that a whale bit off his leg,...
a crocodile had chewed off his hand,...
and a bird dropping hit him in the eye.
The other guy replied that he understood about the
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Nazarene
Contributed by Scott Brewer on Aug 7, 2007
Do you remember the movie “Hook” from the early 1990’s? According to Stephen Spielberg, when Peter Pan grew up he became a self-absorbed, ladder climbing, workaholic baby boomer. So goes the story line of the movie.
In some early scenes Peter promises his son numerous times that he would come to
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Baptist
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